"Guys and Dolls (film) Guys and Dolls is a 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway musical by composer and lyricist Frank Loesser, with a book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, which, in turn, was loosely based on ""The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"" and ""Blood Pressure"", two short stories by Damon Runyon. Dances were choreographed by Michael Kidd,"
"Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on ""The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"" and ""Blood Pressure""two short stories by Damon Runyonand also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon storiesmost notably ""Pick the Winner"". The premiere on Broadway was in 1950. It ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and"
"and Dolls"" went on to gross $1.1 million in the United Kingdom, $1 million in Japan, and over $20 million globally. According to MGM records, the film earned $6,801,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $2,262,000 elsewhere, resulting in a total of $9,063,000. Notes Guys and Dolls (film) Guys and Dolls is a 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine. The film was made by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It was directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is based on the 1950 Broadway"
"and she draws the moral ‘Ere misfortunes teach, be wise’. The new version, also titled ""The Two Doves"", has been attributed to John Hawkesworth, one of the editors of ""The Gentleman's Magazine"" in which it first appeared (July 1748, p 326). Unascribed there, it remained so when reprinted in Thomas Bewick’s ""Select Fables of Aesop and others"" (1818). The change in gender was replicated when the fable was later made the subject of a Parisian ballet. By that time the French were already disposed to interpret it in this way. Gustave Doré, who often transposes the fables into equivalent human"
"Diamonds and Toads Diamonds and Toads or Toads and Diamonds is a French fairy tale by Charles Perrault, and titled by him ""Les Fées"" or ""The Fairies"". Andrew Lang included it in ""The Blue Fairy Book"". It was illustrated by Laura Valentine in ""Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite"". In his source, as in ""Mother Hulda"", the kind girl was the stepdaughter, not the other daughter. The change was apparently to decrease the similarity to ""Cinderella"". It is Aarne-Thompson tale 480, the kind and the unkind girls. Others of this type include ""Shita-kiri Suzume"", ""Frau Holle"", ""The Three Heads in the Well"","
"The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball ""The Sweethearts; or, The Top and the Ball"" (Danish: ""Kjærestefolkene [Toppen og bolden]"") is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about the unrequited love a mahogany top suffers for a leather ball. It is likely the tale's inspiration lies in Andersen’s youthful relationship with Riborg Voight, a woman who declined his marriage proposal in 1830. ""The Sweethearts"" was published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen in November 1843 with several other tales by Andersen in the book ""New Fairy Tales"". The collection was received by Danish critics and the public with"
"The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: ""The Happy Prince"", ""The Nightingale and the Rose"", ""The Selfish Giant"", ""The Devoted Friend"", and ""The Remarkable Rocket"". In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late ""Happy Prince,"" who"
"tales such as ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" and ""Jack the Giant Killer"" helped form the modern perception of giants as stupid and violent, while the dwarf Tom Thumb is a traditional hero in English folklore. English fairy tale ""Goldilocks and the Three Bears"" is one of the most popular fairy tales in the English language. Some folk figures are based on semi- or actual historical people whose story has been passed down centuries: Lady Godiva, for instance, was said to have ridden naked on horseback through Coventry; the heroic English figure Hereward the Wake resisted the Norman invasion; Herne the"
"Fables and Parables Fables and Parables (""Bajki i przypowieści"", 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity. They have been described as being, ""[l]ike LaFontaine's [fables]... amongst the best ever written, while in colour they are distinctly original, because Polish."" They are, according to Czesław Miłosz, ""the most durable among Krasicki's poems."" Emulating the fables of the ancient Greek Aesop, the Macedonian-Roman Phaedrus, the Polish Biernat of Lublin, and the Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine, and anticipating Russia's Ivan Krylov, the Pole Krasicki populates his fables with anthropomorphized"
"Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful ""Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful"" is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 126. It is Aarne-Thompson type 531. Other tales of this type include ""The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa"", ""Corvetto"", ""King Fortunatus's Golden Wig"", and ""The Mermaid and the Boy"". Another, literary variant is Madame d'Aulnoy's ""La Belle aux cheveux d'or"", or ""The Story of Pretty Goldilocks"". A couple had no children while they were rich, but when they became poor, they had a son, and the father could find no one for a godfather except"
"Folk and Fairy Tales Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1978 anthology of 25 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies. Stories are pulled from ""A Book of Dragons"", ""A Book of Mermaids"", ""A Book of Witches"", ""A Book of Dwarfs"", ""A Book of Devils and Demons"", ""A Book of Kings and Queens"", ""A Book of Magic Animals"", ""A Book of Giants"", ""A Book of Ogres and Trolls"", ""A Book of Wizards"", ""A Book of Enchantments and"
"Been In Love Before"", ""More I Cannot Wish You"", and ""Marry the Man Today"". 20th Century Fox acquired the film rights to the musical in early 2013, and plan to cast Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a remake of ""Guys and Dolls"". The following table shows the principal casts of the major productions of ""Guys and Dolls"": There are numerous recordings of the show's score on compact disc. The most notable include: Guys and Dolls Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based"
"The Boy and the Filberts The Boy and the Filberts is a fable related to greed and appears as Aarne-Thompson type 68A. The story is credited to Aesop but there is no evidence to support this. It is not included in either the Perry Index or in Laura Gibbs' inclusive collection (2002). The Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus briefly mentioned the fable in his ""Discourses"" as an analogy of man's getting less as a result of believing he needs more. The earliest English appearance of the story is in a translation of Antoine Houdar de la Motte's ""One Hundred New Court"
"same plotline as Straparola's ""Adamantina and the Doll"": a doll/goose that grants bounty to two poor sisters ultimately leads them to marrying royally. (Compare Basile 2007, 397-401 with Straparola 1894 1: 236-245.) Basile, Giambattista. 2007. ""The Tale of Tales or Entertainment for the Little Ones"". Trans. Nancy L. Canepa, illus. Carmelo Lettere, forward Jack Zipes. New York: Penguin Books. Print. . Boccaccio, Giovanni. 2010. ""Decameron"". Trans. Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. New York: Signet. Print. . Bottigheimer, Ruth B. 2002. ""Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition"". Philadelphia, Penn: University of Pennsylvania Press. Print. . '-------------2009'. ""Fairy Tales:"
"as a co-production between Talawa Theatre Company and Soho Theatre. Talawa announced their winter 2017 co-production with the Royal Exchange Theatre of the Damon Runyon inspired musical, Guys and Dolls, the first in the UK with an all-Black cast. Among the cast announced for Guys and Dolls were Ray Fearon, Ashley Zhanghazha, Abiona Omonua, and Lucy Vandi. Guys and Dolls played at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre in an extended run from December 2017 to February 2018. Reviews had particular praise for the music, direction, relocation to Harlem and sense of spectacle: """"the gamblers ... are a bunch of sharp-suited peacocks"
"there who was his son, and who the traitor. The Duke of France had the steward executed and married his daughter to the true son. The story is apparently derived from the romance ""Roswall and Lillian"". These tales are part of a group of folktales, the best known being ""The Goose Girl"". The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward or The Lord of Lorn and the Flas Steward or The Lord of Lorn is Child ballad number 271. A ballad, ""Lord of Lorn and the False Steward"", was entered in the"
"Tanglewood Tales Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"". It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children. The book includes the myths of: Hawthorne wrote introduction, titled ""The Wayside"", referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to ""A Wonder-Book"", which impelled him to write the ""Tales"". Although Hawthorne informs us in the introduction"
"Doll i' the Grass Doll i' the Grass is a Norwegian fairy tale collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their ""Norske Folkeeventyr"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 402, Animal Brides. Another tale of this type is ""The Frog Princess"". A king sent his twelve sons out to find brides, laying on them the condition that their brides could spin, weave, and sew a shirt in a day, and giving them each a mail coat and a horse. When they had gone a distance, they refused to let the youngest go with them, because he was useless. A little"
"Hansel and Gretel ""Hansel and Gretel"" (; also known as ""Hansel and Grettel"", ""Hansel and Grethel"", or ""Little Brother and Little Sister""; ) is a well-known fairy tale of German origin, recorded by the Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister kidnapped by a cannibalistic witch living in a forest, in a house constructed of cake, confectionery, candy, and many more treats than are imaginable. The two children escape with their lives by outwitting her. The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera ""Hänsel und Gretel"" (1893) by"
"The Mermaid and the Boy The Mermaid and the Boy is a Sámi fairy tale collected by Josef Calasanz Poestion in ""Lapplandische Märchen"" (Wein; 1886). Andrew Lang included an English-language version in ""The Brown Fairy Book"" (1904). It is Aarne-Thompson type 531. Other tales of this type include ""Ferdinand the Faithful and Ferdinand the Unfaithful"", ""Corvetto"", ""King Fortunatus's Golden Wig"", and ""The Firebird and Princess Vasilisa"". Another, literary variant is Madame d'Aulnoy's ""La Belle aux cheveux d'or"", or ""The Story of Pretty Goldilocks"". A king, having been married a year, set out to settle disputes among some distant subjects. His"
"by Jean Simmons and Marlon Brando were sung by the actors themselves, without dubbing by professional singers. In addition to Blaine, Stubby Kaye, B.S. Pully, and Johnny Silver all repeated their Broadway roles in the film. In 2004, the AFI ranked the song ""Luck Be a Lady"" at #42 on their list of the 100 greatest film songs, AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs. In 2006 ""Guys and Dolls"" ranked #23 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. ""Guys and Dolls"" opened on November 3, 1955, to mostly positive reviews. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 90% out of 29"
"The Pigeon and the Dove ""The Pigeon and the Dove"" (as ""Le Pigeon et la Colombe"" in French) is a French literary fairy tale written by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy and published in her book ""New Tales, or Fairies in Fashion"" (""Contes Nouveaux ou Les Fees a la Mode"") written in 1698. A king and a queen had many children, but all but one daughter, Constancia, died. Then the king died, and the queen was so grief-stricken she knew she would die. She sent for a fairy to watch over the princess. The fairy promised to act as regent but warned"
"The Legend of Good Women The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after ""The Canterbury Tales"" and ""Troilus and Criseyde"", and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout ""The Canterbury Tales"". This form of the heroic couplet would become a significant part of English literature no doubt inspired by Chaucer. The prologue describes how Chaucer is reprimanded by the god of love and his queen, Alceste,"
"fables, which are attributed to the legendary Aesop, supposed to have been a slave in ancient Greece around 550 BCE. When Babrius set down fables from the ""Aesopica"" in verse for a Hellenistic Prince ""Alexander,"" he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of ""myth"" that Aesop had introduced to the ""sons of the Hellenes"" had been an invention of ""Syrians"" from the time of ""Ninos"" (personifying Nineveh to Greeks) and Belos (""ruler""). Epicharmus of Kos and Phormis are reported as having been among the first to invent comic fables. Many familiar fables of Aesop include"
"The Captain's Doll The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume with ""The Ladybird"" and ""The Fox"". It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain. The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D. H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic 'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between"
"Frau Holle ""Frau Holle"" (also known as ""Mother Holle"", ""Mother Hulda"" or ""Old Mother Frost"") is a German fairy tale that comes from the book ""Kinder- und Hausmärchen"" (""Children's and Household Tales"") collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. ""Frau Holle"" is the 24th story in the first volume of the book published in 1812 as part of ""Children's and Household Tales"". The legend itself, as it was eventually passed to the Grimm Brothers, originates from oral traditions in Central Germany in what is now known as Hesse. It was told to them by Henriette Dorothea Wild (whom Wilhelm Grimm married"
"for everyone, and a Nutcracker for Clara. Upon giving her the Nutcracker, Clara's little brother, Fritz, breaks it while playing with his toy soldiers. Clara is heartbroken, but Drosselmeier promises to fix it for her. To cheer Clara up, Drosselmeier tells her a story about how the Nutcracker came to be the Prince of the Dolls. Once upon a time there were a King and a Queen who had a beautiful, but vain and normal daughter named Pirlipat. To celebrate the King's birthday, the Queen made a special cake out of blue cheese, the King's favorite. However, the scent of"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"The miller, his son and the donkey The miller, his son and the donkey is a widely dispersed fable, number 721 in the Perry Index. Though it may have ancient analogues, the earliest extant version is in the work of the 13th-century Arab writer Ibn Said. There are many eastern versions of the tale and in Europe it was included in a number of Mediaeval collections. Since then it has been frequently included in collections of Aesop's fables as well as the influential ""Fables"" of Jean de la Fontaine. The basic situation in this fable is of a man and"
"Runyon Theatre"". The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown ""The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"" is a short story by Damon Runyon telling of the improbable — but eventually triumphant — love between an inveterate gambler (Sky Masterson) and a missionary girl (the Miss Sarah Brown of the title). It was the basis for the musical ""Guys and Dolls"", with a similar plot line, but with many additional twists and turns added before the lovers are finally reunited and live happily ever after. It was first published in 1933. In 1949, it was dramatized on radio as part of a program"
"tales: The Doll and One Other The Doll and One Other is a collection of two fantasy and horror novelettes by author Algernon Blackwood. It was released in 1946 and was the first publication of either novelette. It was published by Arkham House in an edition of 3,490 copies. The first novelette, ""The Doll,"" was adapted for an episode of the television show ""Night Gallery"". James Agate Jr adapted the story for ""CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"" (ep. 1224 - July 22, 1981) under the title ""Toy Death"" starring Kristoffer Tabori and Patricia Elliott. ""The Doll and One Other"" contains the"
"A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths. It was followed by a sequel, ""Tanglewood Tales"". The stories in ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"" are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified from the original myths. ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"""
"favorite of Mary Catherine Farrington, the daughter of Tanglewood developer William Farrington. It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington. Tanglewood Tales Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to ""A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys"". It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children. The book includes the myths of: Hawthorne wrote introduction, titled ""The Wayside"", referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a"